Mastery Rank Data

They are in the game. They are content to do... Just like the red book Scyld hunts for Evoliths >_>;

Anything is possible in theory, but I don't think we have any evidence that the game tracks whether you have completed Hunts or Trial of the Magians mini-quests.

I'm very much hoping they do not count, as there's so many branching path ones you'd basically have to redo work 2x-4x over and over again for different end results. The game definitely is aware of which ones you have active on your char, but like you said there's no proof it remembers completion once done so there's the hope that they don't count.

That was the original reason I decided not to try and do them all, since they weren't present in any menus or logs showing completion and the NPC doesn't seem to have any indicators. But I suppose it could be hidden character data server-side, like some other random things such as chocobo digging rank.

In your case Kayte, I've seen your title list, it's like 6 remaining, so don't even waste your time with Magic Trials until you've exhausted every quest (title AND non-title), RoE and such. (SE can't exactly quantify them in uniform way, given that Trials were added to create shortcuts later on, like Limininal/Devious items and Empyrean WS unlocks, trials for JSE Torques, job emotes, etc). It's much more likely that SE gave us 1 point (1 Title) for having completed any Magic Trials at all, which sounds paltry. Given that I ranked up from a Portal Charm and RanoutofSpace ranked up from Scooped, I suspect the array of conditions for a Rank Up, is probably a long bitfield that gets AND()'ed together to create the True/False condition for a Rank-Up. I can already picture SE just grepping all of the Quest NPCs in a given region and calling that a Rank-Up.

TLDR: If Magian Trials assisted in any Rank Ups whatsoever, I would have gotten to Rank 8, much sooner.

Edit: Did you do the Promyvion Memosphere / Anima-enhancing quests? I don't think those give titles, but rather you need to find an NPC Interaction that results in Fanfare music.

ok I'll bite, what are the Anima-enhancing quests?

I don't know about "anima-enhancing" but it sounds like the quest Empty Memories and the process for getting Promyvion maps are being conflated.

Random one I just thought of - have you unlocked/killed the Stage 4 Ixion NM in MMM voucher 09?

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Shadhavar

It doesn't give a title, and progress is stored on your MMM Members card so might not count, but I have done it so you never know!

PS. I got Ballistager and Extremely Discerning, which puts me at 27 missing titles per Kaytes addon:

14 Guild point titles
5 Mog Garden
3 Master Trials
2 MMM
1 Fishing
1 Brown Mage
1 Consort candidate (Male character)

Medal of Altana still needed for me to hit 9. When I get close to any of these or finishing shield I will give up my medal again to test the tipping point.

Where is medal of altana located in the menus? Temp key items?

Gotta grind out a bunch of new temp or perma key items you don't have and see if you can make up for those medal points

And don't forget to collect all those storable equipment sets for key items https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Armor_Storage_NPCs

I did it before I left, and the only painful ones to get are probably the level 30 jse for each race. Gotta camp the AH. And maybe nq austere a pain if you're not that craft

Key items! I'm telling ya! (as someone not even playing, ha)

(I'd laugh if things like the moon pass were worth a ton of points, ha. No one gets it anymore for non-completion purposes)

Was extremely discerning 100 completions, or was it an arbitrary requirement like some have hinted?

I'm guessing you already have the ballista chevrons as well

Yeah, Medal's technically a temporary key item (after all, you lose it when you change nations even with Rhapsody KIs)

I did start going through the list of perm KIs on the wiki at one point, and found a bunch of Adoulin HELM ones I was missing ("Conservative Chop" etc) I was buying the lower tier GP KIs too, but stopped for a bit to work on crafting shield.


Hard to say on airship, as this character has been around since it was the mode of travel so I would have done the quest before. I have been doing it once an in game day for the different character model cycles in case it was that, and have done it ~60 times recently. (edit - I already had Very discerning before the 60 new tries)

I've had 3 different temp ballista titles , but since i can't keep them on the title bard haven't worried about them.